Everyone would have bigger and safer cars if they didn't have those CAFE standards: corporate average fuel economy.

We don't need someone who can think. We need someone with enough digits to hold a pen.

I don't want to abolish government. I simply want to reduce it to the size where I can drag it into the bathroom and drown it in the bathtub.

We are trying to change the tones in the state capitals, and turn them toward bitter nastiness and partisanship.

My goal is to cut government in half in twenty-five years, to get it down to the size where we can drown it in the bathtub.

Obsessions turn people off.

We will make it so that a Democrat cannot govern as a Democrat.

This always confuses liberals, that conservatives like the military and don't like the bureaucracy. That's because the military has their guns pointed out and the bureaucracy has them pointed in.

I was an anti-communist before I was political in other ways.

The future of the Republican Party, all the different folks looking to lead the Republican Party at the national level in the future, recognize we should do immigration reform.

Being married is kind of like being a Ken-doll; you don't get to dress yourself anymore.

Tell no man anything, for no man listensYet hold thy lips ready to speak.

...Did they stumble so as to fall beyond recovery? Not at all...! Romans 11:11

If you are an angle, all you can give is boredom.

So long as I could write things down I could give up talking for a VERY long time.

You can do anything. You can perform miracles, but it won't fulfill you. What will fulfill you is the stillness of eternity.

I don't know how many good books I still have in me; I hope there are another four or five.

As the aeroplane is the most mobile weapon we possess, it is destined to become the dominant offensive arm of the future.

Literature is about being a complex, contradictory human being.

If you have to choose between power and speed and it often turns out you have to make that choice, you've got to go for speed.

Oh, how great peace and quietness would he possess who should cut off all vain anxiety and place all his confidence in God.